The Great Graze Is the Massive Two-Day Food Festival Taking Over Barangaroo This October

The Streets of Barangaroo is flexing its culinary muscles with a huge new two-day food festival that's bringing a tasting trail, a First Nations native food market and a thoughtful series of talks to this waterfront suburb. The Great Graze will pop up across Barangaroo between Saturday, October 29 and Sunday, October 30, showcasing all of the best eateries the suburb has to offer and the skills of some of Australia's favourite chefs.

Kicking things off will be the Food for Thought speaker series in the lobby of One International Towers. A series of sessions will be hosted by Myffy Rigby, each of which will treat audiences to insights and home cooking tips from the likes of Matt Moran (Aria, Chiswick, Barangaroo House), Brent Savage (Monopole, Yellow, Cirrus) and the authors of Furst Nations Food Companion, Rebecca Sullivan and Damien Coulthard.

Savage will also be hosting a four-course lunch at his hatted restaurant Cirrus with the help of Australian seafood expert John Susman. The $140 feast will be centred around sustainable seafood and will feature coral troat, charcoal bread with whipped ricotta, whole john dory, jacket potatoes, grilled asparagus, pavlova and a sustainable platter featuring Cloudy Bay clams, Kinkawooka mussels, Sydney rock oysters, yellowtail trevally and blue swimmer crab.

Restaurants and cases throughout The Streets of Barangaroo will be setting up market-style stalls out the front of their venues, offering tasting plates for between $6-16. Hop between restaurants and discover leek and truffle spring rolls at Lotus, mango pancakes at CHI by Lotus, honey prawns at Zushi, kingfish tostadas at Tequila Daisy, umami potato gems at Ume Burger, a Booze & Bump champagne and caviar combo at Devon Cafe and tossed wings with house peach tea at Belle's Hot Chicken. These are just a few of the dishes that will be on offer to try your way through across the food-filled weekend.

The First Nations food market will also pop up at the Barangaroo food festival, featuring stallholders like Warndu, Blak Cede, Bush to Bowl, Chocolate on Purpose, IndigiEarth, The Unexpected Guest, Meat Brothers and Native Foodways.

The final piece of The Great Graze's puzzle will be a hefty entertainment roster including roving performers and live musicians throughout the precinct and DJ sets out of Barangaroo House's new tune-heavy Japanese restaurant and bar Rekodo.

Rekodo, Steven Woodburn

The Great Graze is taking over The Streets of Barangaroo from 11am–5pm Saturday, October 29 and Sunday, October 30.